• Turbocharge your Oracle, DB2, Sybase, or Informix database environment!

• Covers every aspect of database and Solaris Operating Environment tuning

• Optimize data layout, CPU and memory configuration, and system sizing

• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, step-by-step

• Understand industry-leading benchmarks

• Optimizing data layout, CPU and memory configuration, and system sizing

• Identifying and resolving bottlenecks: a systematic, drill-down monitoring approach

• Understanding database optimizers, database buffer cache, and other key subsystems

• Demystifying the industry's leading benchmarks-and recognizing their limitations

• Understanding the impact of Java technology on database application design

• Contains a quick primer on database architecture and concepts

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 7 Ratings

Once in a bluemoon a classic is born! - 2002-06-17
Reviewer Rating:
This book doesn't belong on your bookshelf it belongs on your desk beside your workstation. Mr. Packer's clarity, conciseness and comprehensiveness in his coverage of a complex topic is a tour de force that few technical writers are able to achieve these days. Written for an intelligent reader in mind, the subject matter is explained simply, directly and elegantly. No profusions of analogies, this author knows what he's talking about and he can explain it.

The organization of the chapters is first-rate. You can get to the heart of the matter with a quick glance at the table of content. The indexing is excellent. I'm amazed that I can find an entry for most of the topics I'm looking up. It has become my first point of reference for configuration and tuning issues.

Do yourself a favour, BUY IT! I'm already looking forward to the second edition of this masterpiece.

Excellent book, but - 2008-02-11
Reviewer Rating:
it's about time for a new edition. Since 2002 there is Solaris 10, ASE 15.0.2, Oracle 11g, etc. I agree with all of the 5 star reviewers and there were no print quality issues with my copy. Biggest problem would be for Mr. Packer to assimilate and digest all of the information from the new RDBMS software available now. If I could I would give this book 6 stars. (By the way, many of the chapters would still be relevant for specific RDBMSs running on AIX, HP, Linux, etc.)

Print quality similar to a photocopy - 2007-10-18
Reviewer Rating:
The content of the book is very good; with information not found elsewhere.

The print quality is horrible. Some of the pages are visibly crooked, and illustrations with grayscale detail look like they are photocopies of photocopies. The gradient on the chapter headings suffer from this too.

Could not put the book down - 2003-08-05
Reviewer Rating:
I bought this book thinking that i would get some good ideas in order to get a little bit more performance from our servers, however once i started reading i could not put it down until 5 hours later.
It cuts all the small talk, and it breaks down every topic in an understandable format and teaches you what you really need to know.
The section on how to improve DISK performance was great, i implemented many things that i learned from reading this book.
Just buy it, you wont regretit.
Its a small price to pay for a good piece of mind.

Total Coverage - 2003-02-04
Reviewer Rating:
This books answers the questions that most others do not. A very technical approach, with great editing and no errors. The books covers architectural issues, Oracle tuning but scores really big in optimizing the Solaris environment (OS and hardware/disk).

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